BARNARD — A new survey of luxury hotels puts a southern Vermont resort in the top five most expensive nationwide.
The survey by Luxury-Hotels.com says Twin Farms in Barnard is the fifth-priciest, with a stay costing twice as much as a night at the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills.
The Luxury-Hotels.com report used the lowest available price for a double room at each property this July and August.
Most of the most expensive hotels were in the West.
The costliest on the list was The Ranch at Rock Creek in Philipsburg, Mont., where a double room for one night, including taxes and fees, will set a guest back $3,600 this summer.
Next on the list were Amangiri in Canyon Point, Utah, at $2,661 per night; The Lodge & Spa at Brush Creek Ranch in Saratoga, Wyo., at $2,337 per night; The Point in Lake Placid, N.Y., at $2,327 per night; and Twin Farms at $1,882 per night.
A stay in a cottage, suite or room at Twin Farms comes with a hand-made wooden Stave puzzle for guests to take home; free luggage unpacking and packing services, free same-day laundry service, and access to a Tesla charging station, the resort says on its website.
While dogs are allowed at some of the cottages at the 300-acre Twin Farms, children are not. Guests must be 16 or over.
The resort won the Travel & Leisure reader poll’s “Top Hotel in the Northeast” in 2018.
Last year, people who live near the resort said they saw a Sikorsky S-76B helicopter with the “Trump” name on it landing there, and the New York Times and Vanity Fair reported that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were vacationing in Vermont.
Trump and Kushner reportedly were also aboard a Trump-branded helicopter that was spotted refueling at the Lebanon Municipal Airport on around the same time.
Twin Farms is the former homestead of Nobel Prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis and journalist Dorothy Thompson.